Show - It Volume 70 Number 60 Utah State University March 14 1973 12 pages Jack Anderson muckracker A k Anderson speaks T by Carol Harmen senior writer many as America’s foremost muckraker Jack Anderson stressed Monday that the people of this country should be sovereign and the government a servant to the Acknowledged by people In a speech deliyered at 10:30 in the Fine Arts Center before a crowd of 1500 Anderson said “There is no other government anywhere that offers its people more freedom no government’ that offers its people more opportunity and no government anywhere that gives the press more freedom than the United States And we’re going to have to bleed and fight to keep it” “Every government by its nature tries to suppress the press” Anderson said Anderson quoted the words of Thomas Jefferson who said “If I had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government I would not hesitate to choose the latter” Much Jack Anderson gesticulates in speech before 1500 in the Monday FAC of Anderson’s speech dealt with the Federal Bureau of Investigation He said the FBI has been investigating the “loyal opposition not spies the noncriminals not criminals” The former Utahn said it is intolerable when “you start investigating people because of UPRPC meeting Campus ‘dress-u- p by Eric De Haan staff reporter The entrance to the USU campus will be dressed up with two handsome new signs as a result of the latest Univer- sity Physical Resource Planning Committee meeting Motorists driving up 4th North from downtown presently see a cracked plastic neon sign at the bottom corner of Old Main Hill On top of the 4th North hill closer to the mouth of Logan Canyon stands a similar sign which once marked the turn to a street which no longer exists Complaints were received about the n look of the two somewhat signs As a result they will be replaced by signs with metal letters projecting from a study laminated wooden beam run-dow- The tough letters possibly of the Permalloy type will be anchored by hidden steel boats to background discourage vandals The new signs will carry the USU logo of interlocking “U’”s and will be lighted at night by spotlights concealed m new decorative flower beds below Also on the Committee’s agenda was the entrance building for the rearranged visitors’ parking lot The new building will guard the entrance to ’ discussed their political ideologies for what they believe and for what they say” Political police force The FBI has become “a political police force” Anderson said “and that’s intolerable in a democracy” “One of the greatests threats to this country is the crime” Anderson Mafia-organize- d said But the FBI’s idea of inis taking off filtrating the far-letheir ties The FBI goes up to Capitol Hill and tells them that the crime-rat- e is rising Anderson said “You begin to wonder what the FBI is doing about it” oft FAC Speaking on the Bureau of Indian Affairs incident Anderson told of the involvement of Les Whitten one of his reporters Whitten was arrested during the incident while helping Hank Adams one of the leaders in the revolt return some of the stolen documents to the BIA The first amendment was violated in this action Anderson said “The FBI knew that no crime was being committed He was covering a story and the FBI arrested him” ft Anderson cited the appointment of L Patrick Gray acting director as one of the major problems with the present FBI system “Hoover would never use the FBI for partisan purposes His (Gray’s) only credentials are his closeness to Richard Nixon” His “loyalty to the team” got him his job Watergate incident Anderson spoke at length on the Watergate incident and the FBI’s involvement in it Gray asked John Dean to carry on an investigation simultaneous with the It was FBI’s investigation discovered however that Dean had been responsible for Gordon apgovernment Liddy’s with along pointment Liddy Howard Hunt was one of the chief individuals indicted during the investigation Gray testified Adams had made no appointment with the to return the documents Anderson said However a BIA official stated that he had spoken to the FBI and told them there had and appointment “Either the FBI isn’t telling L BIA Patrick Gray what they’re doing” Anderson said “or Gray committed perjury” Freedom of the press “Freedom of the press is your freedom not ours” Anderson said “Men in power tend to oppress those they have power over” Commenting on the charge of being a muckraker Anderson said “There are more muck-makers there are muckrakers And the muck the government makes ought to be raked out into the sunlight” At a question and answer session held at 1:30 in the SunAnderson burst Lounge of discussed rights reporters and the press Discover :W the lot just across 7th NortlT Street from the P E building The new visitor parking lot will eventually replace the one just east of the Union Building The old parking lot was hard to find if a person was badly acquainted with the streets of the campus The new booth with its central location on busy 7th North will provide visitor information and could possibly function as the University’s ticket office The ticket office in the basement of the Union BTiilding can be difficult f or Ttrarngers to locate than m The Committee also dealt with the desire of Physical Plant to have an area somewhere on University property on which rare or special young trees and shrubs scould be planted while they wait for a permanent location on campus The Committee decided to recommend to the administration that part of a lot at 8th East and 14th North be designated for this purpose pending studies of the various needs of other programs at other desirable locations USU student Susan Drechsel will be of leaving the Committee because schedule conflicts A replacement will be made through the Student Activities Board ft Natiddal wildlifaWfeek young wood duck popping'OiittiHt’s nesting box is as much a part of Spring as the annual celebration of 1973) National Wildlife Week (March 18-2- 4 A — 7t |